These photographs document the state of some of the housing Champaign-Urbana's "North End," the historical African-American community, in the 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s. These photographs come from the Doris K. Wylie Hoskins Archive for Cultural Diversity. For more information on this history, see the League of Women Voter's report, entitled "Shack Study," on the state of this housing in 1949. Please add any information you may have about the particular location of these buildings. These photographs were taken by Kenneth Stratton and Romeo Green, Jr..

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613 North Ash Street, 1940

At N. Romine Street, before the construction of Ellis Subdivision, on Eads Street.

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